Notes of an east coast naturalist : a series of observations made at odd times during a period of twenty-five years in the neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth / illustrated in colour by F. Southgate

Patterson, Arthur H.

Published by London: Methuen & Co., 1904

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Patterson, Arthur H. Notes of an east coast naturalist : a series of observations made at odd times during a period of twenty-five years in the neighbourhood of Great Yarmouth / illustrated in colour by F. Southgate. First edition. London: Methuen & Co., 1904. Hardack, good, ex-library copy. Green cloth with gilt frame to front; gilt lettering to front and spine. Covers are bumped to corners, with the binding along the spine edges repaired with silver tape. Library classmark and red line to base of spine. Front pastedown has bookplate of Eastbourne College. Fep has ownership signature of the ornithologist and author E. C. Arnold from 1905. Endpapers tanned. Colour frontispiece illustration. Foxing to title page. xiii, 297pp., 12 colour illustrations + 40pp. publisher catalogue. Some occasional foxing but contents mostly clean and bright. Patterson was a Broadland naturalist and writer, born on 19 October 1857 at Great Yarmouth, the youngest of nine children. Arthur Patterson was educated at the Great Yarmouth PM Day School, where he was briefly a pupil teacher, then in 1879 a postman and soon after a peddler of ready-packed tea. Following marriage in 1880 he was employed as an attendant at the YMCA and a taxidermist; from 1892 to 1926 he was a School Board Attendance Officer. His prolific literary output, begun in 1884, included Man and Nature on the Broads (1895), Rambles in Birdland (nd [1896]), Notes of an East Coast Naturalist (1904), Nature in East Norfolk (1905), Wildlife on a Norfolk Estuary (1907), Man and Nature of Tidal Waters (1909) and Through Broadland by Sail and Motor (1930). Recognition of his work as a naturalist came in May 1935 with his election to the Linnean Society. He died on 27 October 1935. Lovely illustrations by Edward Frank Southgate RBA (1 August 1872 23 February 1916), an artist who spent most of his life in Norfolk and concentrated on painting birds, especially waterfowl, and hunting scenes. His paintings of ducks and other birds in Patterson s book became internationally renowned. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Seller Inventory # ABE-1675860089253

Bibliographic Details

Title: Notes of an east coast naturalist : a series...

Publisher: London: Methuen & Co.

Publication Date: 1904

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition